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The following was written by the minister of a small rural parish near Perth, with rei erence to the Highland belief in the an- tiquity of the Gaelic tongue :

Should Gaelic spe ech be e’er forgot,

An’ never brought tomin;

For she'll be spoke in Paradise’ «°"4

in the days o’ Auld Lang Syne.

When Eve all fresh in beauty’s charms First met fond Adam's view, ~~~ ws iit The first word that he'll spoke to her Was * cumar ashun dhu.”

And Adam in his garden fair, When e’r the day did close, _ Whe dish that he'll to supper teuk Was always Athole brose.

When Adam from his leafy bower Cam’ out at break o' day,

He'll always for his morning teuk

A quaich o’ usquebae.

And when wi’ Eve he'll had a crack, He'll tuk his sweeshin’ horn,

An’ on the tap ye'll weel micht mark, A pony from Cairngorm.

The sweeshin’ mull is fine my friend's, The sweeshin’ mull is grand, he We'll teuk a hearty sweesk my frins, An’ pass’t fra hand to hand.

When man first found the want o’claes, The win an’ could to fleg,

He twisted round about his waists

The tartan philabeg.

An’ music first on earth was heard In Gaelic accents deep, When Jubal in his oxter squeezed The blether o’ a sheep.

The braw bag-pipes is grand, my frien’s The braw bag-pipes is fine ;

We'll teuk’t another pibroch yet,

For the days o’ Auld Lang Syne.

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Curious Cases of Sleep-Walking.

On the above curious subjeet a retired naval officer obligingly sends us the fol- lowing notes:

One bright moonlight night I was op deck, as was frequently my wont, chat. ting with the lieutenant of the middle watch. [It was nearly calm, the ship waking little way through the water, and the moon’s light nearly as bright as

diy. We were together leaning over the capstan, chatting away, when W sud- , at the

denly exclaimed: “ Look, H sentry !’’ and pointing to the quarter- deck marine, who was pacing slowly backwards and forwards on the lee side of the deck. :

“Well,” I replied, after watching him somewhat attentively as he passed once or twice on his beat, “What of him ?”’

“Why, don’t you see he is fast asleep ? Take a good look at him when he next a

t did so, and found W was right. The man, although pacing and turning regularly at the usual distance, was fast asleep with his eyes closed.

When next the man passed, W—— stepped quickly and poiselessly to his side, and pacing with him, gently disen- gozed the Luoch of keys which were his special charge—being the keys of the) spirit room, shell-rooms, store-roems, etc. —from the fingers of his left hand, to which they were suspended by a small chain ; he then removed the bayonet from his other hand and laid the keys on the capstan head. After letting him take another turo or two, W--— suddenly called ‘‘ Sentry.”

« Why, you were fast asleep, sentry.”

* No, sir.”’

“ But I say you were.”

‘No, sir. I assure you I was not.”

“You were not, eh? Well, where are the keys ?”’

The man instantly brought up his hand to show them, as he supposed ; but, to his confusion, the hand was empty.

“Where is your bayonet? continued w—”’

The poor fellow brought forward his other hand, but that was empty also. But the puzzled look of astonishment he put op was more than he could stand; we burst out laughing; and when the keys and bayonet were pointed out to him lying on the” capstain, the poor fellow was per- feclly dumb-founded.. W-—— was too merry over the joke, however, to punish the man, and he escaped with a warning not to fall asleep again.

Sentries and look-outs must be very Hable to fall asleep from the very nature ofthe monotonous pacing, and this may ia some degree account for the facility

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